FORM Graphic Design Intersecting Professional and Critical Practice

SPEAKERS:

Gemma Copeland (https://gemmacope.land)
Martin McGrath (https://martinmcgrath.com)
Pali Palavathanan / TEMPLO (https://templo.co.uk)
Rifke Sadleir (https://rif.ke)
Rose Nordin (https://rosenord.in)

Graphic Design teaches that graphic design is slippery.

Its FORM changes across various practices, theories and histories, and any attempt to define graphic design in words can be too specific or too broad; either identifying graphic design too much with its products, or broadly describing it as a social practice.

Using words to pin down exactly what graphic designers think and do is a semantic struggle, often leaving out FORM as a useful term to talk about graphic design.

FORM is a one-day event organised by the BA Graphic and Digital Design at the University of Greenwich to discuss different perspectives around professional and critical practice, looking at graphic design in its multiple forms.

Form, useful definitions:

• the visible shapes and configurations of things; the body or shape of humans and non-humans;
• a particular way in which a thing exists or appears;
• any of the ways in which a word may be spelled, pronounced or inflected;
• the structure of a phrase, sentence or discourse;
• the essential nature of a species of a thing;
• a type or variety of something;
• an artistic or literary genre;
• a taxonomic category;
• a customary or correct method or procedure;
• a ritual or convention;
• a set order of words – a formula;
• a mould, frame or block in which something is shaped;
• a document with blank spaces to insert information.